title: Proposal for a new content model for the Austrian Procedure Catalogue.
abstract: The Austrian Procedure Catalogue is used for procedure coding in Austria. Its architecture and content has some major weaknesses. The aim of this study is the presentation of a new potential content model for this classification system consisting of main characteristics of health interventions. It is visualized using a UML class diagram. Based on this proposition, an implementation of an ontology for procedure coding is planned.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Statistics, Informatics and Health Economics, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria.
authors.forename: Sabrina B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Neururer
authors.forename: Karl P
authors.initials: KP
authors.lastname: Pfeiffer
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D001317:Austria; D002377:Catalogs as Topic; D059019:Clinical Coding / Q000379:methods*; D004018:Dictionaries, Medical as Topic; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014584:User-Computer Interface